Job vacancy: Associate Practitioner, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley

Job summary

Main area: Microbiology (Bacteriology)
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 151-NM139

Employer: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Frimley Park Hospital
Town: Camberley
Salary: £28,860 - £31,671 per annum incl HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/08/2025 23:59

Associate Practitioner

Band 4

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be able to effectively deal with simple day to day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate
Ensures sample is appropriate type for all tests and assesses samples for urgency, informing Biomedical Scientist staff of such samples
To be responsible for own work which will include all aspects of the technical work, equipment and quality system
To monitor and produce reports as required to laboratory manager in relation to workload and staff within section
Ensures efficient use of resources and is aware of stock levels and rotation, storage conditions, batch numbers and expiry dates, thus ensuring the viability of reagents and/or blood products used
Communicates effectively with other staff groups both internal and external, including healthcare professionals, transport and courier staff, patients and their representatives and commercial suppliers
Provides supervision, training support and assistance to newly staff as appropriate (including the demonstration of procedures to less experienced staff)
Carry out biomedical procedures including maintenance, monitoring of sophisticated equipment and audit in accordance with departmental SOPs

Further details refer to JD and PS

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Good education to A Levels, including science subject or NVQ 4 or IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 2) or Foundation degree or demonstrable laboratory knowledge, experience and skills that prerequisite this role.
Willing to undergo relevant training to ensure sound relevant knowledge

Desirable criteria

• ECDL

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience as a MLA in a diagnostic laboratory
Able to perform technically challenging procedures where applicable
Ability to develop knowledge and understanding of microbiology techniques sufficient to undertake specimen processing and reception

Desirable criteria

Experience of working as part of a team
Some experience of diagnostic microbiology

Skills Knowledge

Essential criteria

Good at multi-tasking
Good verbal and manual skills
Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures
Ability to follow written and verbal instructions

Desirable criteria

Lateral thinking
Familiar with the use of computers and able to use a keyboard
Friendly and interactive in working group

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Marcial Navarro

Job title

Site Lead Biomedical scientist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

03006136958

Additional information

Contact -

Catriona Steele

Site Lead Biomedical Scientist

[email protected]

03006136958

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Associate Practitioner

Band 4

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Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

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Skills Knowledge

Essential criteria

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